San Francisco, Calif. February 03, 2012 — Deployed by the country's largest and most experienced mobile production companies, a wide variety of live production equipment from Grass Valley™ will once again be used for this year's highly anticipated Super Bowl XLVI high-definition telecast—as well as for a number of related programs shot during the week leading up to the big game.

San Francisco, Calif., February 02, 2012 — The Grass Valley™ Kayenne™ Video Production Center is now more accessible to broadcasters that require mixing power on a temporary basis for live events, thanks to a deal with Presteigne Charter.

San Francisco, Calif. January 24, 2012 — AMS Pictures, a Texas-based, premiere, full-service video production company, has upgraded its production capabilities to full high-definition (HD) production with the purchase of a new Karrera™ Video Production Center switcher from Grass Valley™.

San Francisco, Calif., January 19, 2012 — Asahi Broadcasting Aomori (ABA), a local All-Nippon News Network facility owned by TV Asahi Corp., and specifically serving the Aomori prefecture of Japan (510,000 households), is completely upgrading its digital news production operations to a high-definition (HD), file-based system from Grass Valley™.

San Francisco, Calif. January 05, 2012 — Grass Valley™ (www.grassvalley.com) today announced a new Support Agreement portfolio designed to keep systems running and to help customers plan for their long-term maintenance needs. The new portfolio will be managed by the Grass Valley Global Services division.

San Francisco, Calif. December 13, 2011 — Australia's Nine Network has taken delivery of its third Grass Valley™ Kayenne™ Video Production Center to support a refurbishment of its high-definition (HD) production studio in Sydney. In 2011, Grass Valley engineers completed systems integration of Nine Network's relocated Melbourne studios to a new facility in the Docklands district, providing system design and integration expertise to install a full complement of legacy and new third-party HD production equipment. The Melbourne project included the installation of two 2.5 M/E Kayenne™ systems inside dual HD control rooms.

San Francisco, Calif. November 22, 2011 — With each new release, Grass Valley™ EDIUS® multiformat nonlinear editing software continues to get better and better, and more popular with editors the world over. The latest version (6.06), adds significant increases in system performance and valuable new third-party compatibility that make an editor's job faster and more efficient.

San Francisco, Calif., November 17, 2011 — Further strengthening its leadership team in Europe, Grass Valley™ announces the appointment of Christopher Brennan as Vice President for Central and Eastern Europe. Brennan will be based in Germany and reports directly to Alan Wright, Senior Vice President for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, as part of a growing emphasis on solutions and strategic relationships.

San Francisco, Calif. November 16, 2011 — Grass Valley™ has unveiled a powerful 3D toolset for its EDIUS® multiformat nonlinear editing software and has added 3D support for editing peripherals that provides users with a complete stereoscopic 3D postproduction workflow. The STORM™ 3G and STORM 3G Elite editing platforms —are both supported via the EDIUS timeline with stereoscopic 3D I/O through a single 3G SDI source and/or dual 3G SDI signals.

San Francisco, Calif., November 15, 2011 — Televisora Nacional S.A. (TVN), Panama's most popular TV network, has built a new TV facility in Panama City and installed a full complement of Grass Valley™ production and distribution equipment to support the studio's routing and master control operations for its established TVN channel and new TVMax channel.

San Francisco, Calif., November 09, 2011 — Sky Racing, a world leader in bringing multi-venue, multi-channel race broadcasting to millions of viewers in Australia and around the globe, has contracted with Grass Valley™ to design and build three new outside broadcast (OB) vans.

San Francisco, Calif., October 25, 2011— KOIN-TV, the CBS affiliate serving the Portland, Ore. metropolitan area, has streamlined the production of its local news with the installation of a full complement of Grass Valley™ live news production technologies. The highly rated station recently added K2 ™ media server and shared storage technology to help record and deliver its news and syndicated content.

San Francisco, Calif., October 20, 2011 — Grass Valley™ has announced that, as part of a special competitive upgrade promotion, users of Apple's Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and Avid's Media Composer can now upgrade to EDIUS^® 6 nonlinear editing program for just $399. That's 50 percent off the regular price.

San Francisco, Calif., October 18, 2011 — French broadcaster TF1 is using two Grass Valley™ K2 Dyno™ Replay Systems to enable rugby fans to watch live HD replays of the key kicks, conversions, tackles, and tries from the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the largest event in France's 2011 sporting calendar, with more than 10 million viewers expected to tune in.

San Francisco, Calif. & Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, October 12, 2011 —Grass Valley™, the premier video technology solutions company, today announced that it has acquired PubliTronic, a privately-held, global provider of multichannel, integrated, automated playout solutions. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

San Francisco, Calif., October 12, 2011 —Grass Valley™, the premier video technology solutions company, today announced an extension of the K2 media server family with K2 Edge™, the centerpiece of Grass Valley's overall integrated playout solution. Housed in a compact 1 RU chassis, K2 Edge is a robust and proven Linux-based system with a purpose-built, high availability architecture for mission-critical 24/7 playout applications.

San Francisco, Calif., October 5, 2011 — The Hall of Music Productions at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, has purchased a full complement of high-definition (HD) live production equipment from Grass Valley™ to cover its men's and women's sports programs for in-stadium, in-arena, and campus-wide distribution.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 10, 2011 — CAMERON | PACE Group, the global leader in 3D technology, and Grass Valley™, the premiere video technology solutions company, have formed a strategic alliance to accelerate the broadcast industry's transformation to 3D stereoscopic production.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Rede Record, Brazil's second-largest television network, is again turning to Grass Valley™ high definition (HD) technology to cover this year's Pan American games in Guadalajara, Mexico (October 14-30), and used a full complement of digital production equipment for its Record TV channel in order to package content captured at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — South Korea's newest cable TV provider, jTBC, has purchased a full complement of high-definition production and master control technologies from Grass Valley™ for a new file-based production and playout facility in Seoul. The new cable TV provider offers live news, entertainment, sports, and drama programming to subscribers throughout the country.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Belgian-based international outside broadcast services provider Alfacam, has placed a significant order with Grass Valley™ for a unique and flexible solution to enable it to capture live sporting events in crystal-clear HD resolutions and instantly play them out at variable speeds for critical analysis during fast-paced events. The comprehensive order is the largest live HD production systems purchase to date in Europe for Grass Valley.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ has signed a comprehensive Service Level Agreement (SLA) with MediaHub Australia Pty Ltd., to manage and service MediaHub's new digital, high-definition multi-client, multi-channel digital play-out facility in Sydney. The highly sophisticated and totally file-based facility, which features Grass Valley technologies and systems for high reliability and efficiency, was officially opened in June 2010 and is a joint venture between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and WIN Television Networks (WIN).

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ is introducing Europe and the world to an innovative new software concept, the STRATUS™ Media Workflow Application Framework. STRATUS streamlines a variety of tasks and processes for media production and management. Through a series of fully integrated, task-specific tools, STRATUS facilitates an efficient workflow across the entire content creation and distribution chain—all from a single, intuitive graphical user interface (GUI).

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Brazil's Emissoras Pioneiras de Televisão (EPTV), an affiliate of the TV Globo Network covering the São Paulo State and Minas Gerais State regions, has expanded its live sports and studio production capabilities with the recent purchase of a significant quantity of high-definition production equipment and systems from Grass Valley™. The broadcaster has also entered into a multi-year Service Level Agreement to protect the equipment and ensure continued support.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — At IBC2011, Grass Valley™ is launching a new version of its Xensium™ CMOS camera, the LDK 3000, adding functionality normally found only on premium system cameras. The new LDK 3000+ includes secondary color correction and new software algorithms to get the very best performance out of lenses, all while the price remains the same.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ is launching a new 9" (225 mm) diagonal LCD color viewfinder for its LDK Series of cameras – the LDK 5309/10. Giving the operator a large bright display with supporting functionality, the new 16x10 (16x9 active video with 16x1 on-screen menu) viewfinder will provide access to much of the camera's controls for additional ease of operation.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Bert Blümer, a leading rental house for wireless cameras in Germany, has added four additional Grass Valley™ LDK 8000 Elite HD wireless camera systems to its inventory, in order to meet the growing demands from broadcasters and events production companies. This new order brings the total number of Grass Valley wireless cameras in Bert Blümer's inventory to nine.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — SIS LIVE, the largest outside broadcast contractor in the UK, has placed its first order with Grass Valley™ for five LDK 8300 Super SloMo cameras. Having increased its revenues dramatically over the last three years, SIS LIVE selected the market-leading LDK 8300 over competitive options, to support anticipated growth in sports contracts in the UK during 2012.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — TVN, a leading commercial broadcaster in Poland, has taken another major step on its transition to high definition production by equipping its two outside broadcast units with Grass Valley™ Kayenne™ XL production switchers. The new switchers are part of a complement of equipment for the trucks, including Grass Valley HD cameras and routers.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ is pleased to announce further workflow integration between the popular EDIUS® 6 nonlinear video editing software and the K2 media server systems, with the release of the updated K2 EDIUS Connect option.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — In a move that is sure to be closely watched throughout the region, Swedish national public broadcaster Sveriges Television AB (SVT) has embarked on a comprehensive facility migration plan to deploy a file-based, high-definition (HD) production and distribution infrastructure. This massive, multi-million dollar project, the largest ever undertaken by SVT, will be completed by the end of 2012, with the first phase to be completed in December, 2011.

San Francisco, Calif., September 08, 2011 — In a move to improve the way that live production is produced, Grass Valley USA, LLC, the premier video technology solutions company, today announced that Grass Valley Australia Pty Ltd, its affiliate in Australia, has acquired Evolution Pty Ltd., a small, privately-held technology company based in Sydney, Australia that specializes in touchscreen driven live production workflow solutions. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ is pleased to announce that BTN, based in Chicago, has purchased the company's 300th K2 Dyno™ Replay System, to handle 720p replays during live game telecasts.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Sky Racing, Australia’s premier multi-channel thoroughbred, harness, and greyhound racing network that televises more than 83,000 races each year to millions of viewers in Australia and internationally, will be installing a new Grass Valley™ STRATUS™ Media Workflow Application Framework.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Mobile Television Group (MTVG), a veteran production company based in Denver, Colo. that operates a fleet of more than two-dozen high-definition (HD) mobile production trucks, has unveiled its latest rig complete with a full complement of live production equipment from Grass Valley™. Over the past few years, MTVG has standardized most of its fleet on Grass Valley's multiformat HD technologies.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ has been awarded a contract for five LDK 3000 high definition cameras as part of an upgrade of the news studio at LNK, the leading Lithuanian commercial broadcaster. The order was won by Hannu Pro, the Grass Valley distributor in the Baltics, against stiff competition from other vendors which offered low-priced entry level cameras, but failed to match up to the quality and reliability of the LDK 3000.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — The Young Broadcasting station group has upgraded the news departments of eight of its stations to a fully networked, file-based, high-definition (HD) news production and distribution system from Grass Valley™.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™, the inventors of the modern day production switcher, and a company known for the highest-quality production switchers available today, has leveraged its extensive engineering expertise with the Kayenne™ Video Production Center and Kayak™ switchers, along with its field-proven experience, to introduce a new, lower-cost switcher platform called the Karrera™ Video Production Center – bringing top of the line production capabilities to more applications and more users.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Video Equipment Rentals (VER)—a premiere AV/broadcast equipment rental company based in Glendale, Calif., has added a variety of new high-definition cameras and a new video production switcher from Grass Valley™ to its extensive inventory of HD production equipment.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ launched a new 3G version of its Concerto™ Series router at NAB2011, and CME ordered one immediately. The new router has been installed at Nova TV Czech in Prague, Czech Republic.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ will show expanded functionality for its Karrera™ Video Production Center switcher (see release: "Grass Valley Unveils Next-Generation Production Switcher Karrera Video Production Center," September 8, 2011) with its Ignite™ Scalable Automated Production System.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ announced today a new addition to the growing STORM™ line of EDIUS® I/O units. Available in different configurations for notebooks and desktop PCs, the Grass Valley STORM™ Mobile offers a variety of video and audio inputs and outputs for use with EDIUS 6 nonlinear editing software—catering to a broad spectrum of editors ranging from "prosumers" working on personal projects at home to broadcast/professional users editing on location.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — DutchView Multicam, the Netherlands all-inclusive multimedia company, has signed a five-year exclusive vendor contract with Grass Valley™. This contract includes delivery of the latest state-of-the art Grass Valley cameras, switchers, routers, and servers over the five year term of the agreement.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 —The biggest logistical challenge that outside broadcast companies face on a daily basis, is camera connectivity in the field: triax or fiber? For a truck to move between covering large-scale events like a golf tournament, which needs fiber to a football match at a stadium pre-wired with triax, would mean having to swap out all the cameras, cables, and base stations, until now. Grass Valley™ unveils a unique system which eliminates the triax/fiber problem, without compromising quality or operational flexibility.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Multimedios TV and Milenio TV, the third largest network in Mexico, has upgraded its studio and news production operations with a full complement of multiformat, file-based equipment from Grass Valley™. The new systems, being implemented with existing Grass Valley and other third-party technology, are being installed at the network's two production and playout facilities in Monterrey and Mexico City.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — At IBC2011, Grass Valley™ will show how easy it is to take any live program and automatically format it for the web and mobile computing devices, complete with the ability to replace advertisements in the live stream, with its turnkey MediaFUSE® Live automated content repurposing & multi-distribution system.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — RCN Television (Radio Cadena Nacional), a commercial broadcast network that reaches 97% of the Colombian population through 135 stations, provided stunning slow-motion replays in crystal clear high-definition (HD) resolution (1080i) for this year's 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup soccer tournament in Columbia with K2 Dyno™ Replay Systems from Grass Valley™.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Grass Valley™ has recently won four deals in Switzerland for its LDK 3000 high-definition (HD) cameras. The LDK 3000 camera combines Grass Valley's world class digital image processing with its innovative Xensium™ CMOS sensor, allowing it to deliver significantly higher quality than competing products in its price range.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Viditech, part of The Facility House Broadcast Partners, a supplier of outside broadcast (OB) services in the Netherlands, has become the first customer of the new Grass Valley™ Trinix™ Multiviewer. A Trinix NXT router that includes the multiviewer will be installed in Viditech's new OBV5 truck, which is due to be operational this month.

San Francisco, Calif., September 02, 2011 — Grass Valley™ announces the upcoming availability of a feature enhancing Service Pack (SP) for the T2™ intelligent Digital Disk Recorder (iDDR). The newly announced Service Pack (T2 SP4) is the 4th in the succession of service packs for the T2 iDDR, and enhances the capabilities of the T2 iDDR with features such as T2-to-T2 transfer capabilities, AVCHD and XDCAM playback support, enhanced AMP protocol support, and many other features that can extend the T2 iDDR's usability at live sporting and live entertainment events.

San Francisco, Calif., September 02, 2011 — IBC will provide European customers with their first chance to get a close-up look at Grass Valley's™ new high-quality, fully integrated multiviewer capability in the family of Trinix™ NXT multi-format digital video routing switchers. Introduced at NAB, the new option supports infrastructures up to 3 Gb/s, while providing up to eight SDI multiviewer monitor outputs per card—including the ability to monitor audio for each source. The Trinix Multiviewer is ideally suited to monitoring within all types of broadcast control rooms, live production and distribution facilities, and mobile trucks.

San Francisco, Calif., September 02, 2011 — In response to customer feedback, Grass Valley™ announces the availability of a free, downloadable Software Development Kit (SDK) as well as a Service Pack for the ADVC G Series. The SDK and Service Pack update offers numerous product enhancements including PC input (60p) to 59.94i or 50i frame rate conversion, as well as allowing for better integration within video workflows for system integrators using the SDK.

San Francisco, Calif., September 01 , 2011 — RTS, the national broadcaster in Serbia, was one of the first in the world to appreciate the power of the Grass Valley™ digital news production system, installing its first system in 2003. Over the years, Grass Valley has continued to develop the RTS implementation, and has now integrated an archive system from SGL.

San Francisco, Calif., August 30, 2011 —Televisión de Galicia (TVG) has upgraded its primary production studio in Santiago de Compostela, Spain to high-definition (HD) with Grass Valley™ production technologies. As the final phase of a multi-year €1 million (US$ 1.4 million) project, Grass Valley supplied Kayenne™ XL HD production switcher.

San Francisco, Calif., August 23, 2011 — Alfacam, operators of one of the largest outside broadcast fleet in Europe, is continuing its global expansion with major sporting contracts in India. As with all of Alfacam's projects, the coverage depends upon Grass Valley™ cameras, including the LDK 8000 Elite and LDK 8300 Live Super Slo-Mo HD cameras.